Recent ground thermo-hydrological changes in a southern Tibetan endorheic catchment and implications for lake level changes
Léo C. P. Martin,Sebastian Westermann,Michele Magni,Fanny Brun,Joel Fiddes,Yanbin Lei,Philip Kraaijenbrink,Tamara Mathys,Moritz Langer,Simon Allen,and Walter W. Immerzeel
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth System Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Across the Tibetan Plateau, many large lakes have been changing level during the last decades as a response to climate change. In high-mountain environments, water fluxes from the land to the lakes are linked to the ground temperature of the land and to the energy fluxes between the ground and the atmosphere, which are modified by climate change. With a numerical model, we test how these water and energy fluxes have changed over the last decades and how they influence the lake level variations.
Across the Tibetan Plateau, many large lakes have been changing level during the last decades as...